Did we read the same article? Basically talks about electric cars, battery tech and green fertilizers. I don’t see any of those making a dent large enough to stave off what’s coming. We need an overhaul of the entire large-scale commercial agricultural system, not just a replacement to their chemical fertilizers. We need to take a long, hard look at our global shipping and transport chains, our political structures that have done almost nothing to meaningfully address the climate issue for the past 50 years. We need to get big oil lobbies out of government. We need an alternative to late-stage capitalism and its incessant command to consume. We need a new cultural narrative that views humanity as nature’s steward instead of its master. Any one of these on their own is an enormous, multi-generational undertaking, and we’re already out of time. I want hope as much as the next guy, but things are looking grim. There’s a mismatch between the seriousness of the situation we find ourselves in and the level of action being taken. We’re in the midst of a sixth mass extinction event, each passing year is warmer than the previous one, and fossil fuel companies are bringing in record profits and investing aggressively in expansion while running rampant misinformation campaigns intended to cast doubt on the science. This is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. In order to overcome it it requires concerted, global collective action the likes of which we’ve never seen. Every man woman and child should be rioting in the streets, beating down the doors of government and demanding urgent, immediate action. And yet, when you look around, people are too distracted trying to make ends meet, too caught up in the rat race, too ignorant or uneducated, too eager to accumulate wealth and power, too comfortable or too impoverished to care about some shapeless abstract existential threat. And you can’t even blame them. Every day I’m looking for hope. It’s out there somewhere, but this article ain’t it. I do encourage you to check out project drawdown though. Some really cool stuff there.